Your favorite CLINT EASTWOOD western ?

Meant Sherrif which was first both good though in their day.

 

I still have to check that one out, if for no other reason than to satisfy my curiousity...

 

Clint wears a psychedelic shirt.
Trivia..
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Rodney Bingenheimer in it.

 

We could have a discussion, but when you accuse me of being ignorant, and unsophisticated, it makes it impossible. You have a different view on what is in many people's view a genre that (literally) white washes the history of American Expansionism. The conquering, Christian white male taming a land of savages. Perhaps one of the only Westerns that doesn't fall into this revisionist depiction of reality is Soldier Blue, but I doubt that you would regard that film as worthy of your consideration because it doesn't espouse the mythos that you subscribe to.

 

Your language would be insulting if it weren't baby talk.

There's no point in discussing American westerns with you because
you don't know anything about them. All you know is Sergio Leone
and Clint Eastwood and spaghetti westerns made on the wrong
continent.

You have no idea what my views are.

Westward expansion is complicated. I gave four years of college to it.
It's not black and white to me. I see it terms of how people lived. All
people. Not just white people. And not just white male. Females had
a lot to do with westward expansion as well, in fact they were principle
players. I know that because I've read their diaries, journals, letters
and manuscripts. You can't just ignore them in your discrimination
against white people.

I cannot subscribe to the view that white Europeans did not have the
right to settle on this continent, raise a new civilization of their own
called America, and expand westward. Nor can I subscribe to the view
that native tribes were peaceful and in harmony with nature. That is
another myth, which their own histories in their own languages
disprove. The tribes waged war against each other for hundreds of
years. The Apaches for example wiped out those they did not enslave.
They obliterated entire tribes. They created a culture of warriors before
the first white man ever stepped foot on the continent. Nothing is as
simple as you think.

Regarding how you think, the accusations you've made demonstrate
that you're naive and childish and profoundly ignorant. You cite as
an example the most bigoted and racist film to come out of that
mindset. Soldier Blue is factually and historically wrong. It's badly
researched and uninformed. It does an injustice to both sides. On
another level, it's so badly made it could have been directed by Jess
Franco.

The Steve Hoffman Forum is not the place to teach history. Since
you seem to think that the American west was about nothing else
but conflict with the tribes, why not learn something about them.
Start here:

 

I actually watched hang em high and the good the bad and the ugly today

 

There was a Metalica tour where they played that on the big screen just before they entered the stage. It was so perfect.

 

No, people only want to talk about Clint and spags, spags and Clint.

I well remember how popular the dollars trilogy was in the late 1960s and
early 1970s. These films put bodies in the seats. The double and triple
feature kept ending at one theater and beginning at another theater well
into the decade. You'd pay $3 early and stay all day. I enjoyed them myself.

Clint gave up too soon on the character. He should have made more
dollars films, perhaps with an American script writer and a different
Italian director. There was more to be done with the character, and
a ton of money to be made. Just because Sergio Leone moved on was
no reason to abandon what could have been a lucrative and creatively
interesting franchise. I feel the same way about Lee Van Cleef's
character. He deserved a trilogy of his own.

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales for me. Closely followed by High Plains Drifter.

Just below those two I can't split Pale Rider and Unforgiven.

 

All movies are fiction, otherwise they'd all be documentaries.

 

Unforgiven - Gene Hackman is brilliant in this “Duck Of Death “.

 

Talk Clint” well it’s a thread about him. I thinking 1950s American westerns ie Shane,Vera Cruz, The Searchers,The Bravados,The Naked Spur etc.,

 

That's a good double feature...

 

Agreed, this is a Clint Eastwood thread, so naturally he should be the main topic of discussion...

The other films you mentioned here would fit in good in the "Why did Westerns become so unpopular" thread... All kinds of Western talk seems to be going on in there...

 

Here's the link to the thread I mentioned above:

Why did Westerns become so unpopular?

 

Believe I’ve posted in that thread.

 

You did... It was in my "Alerts" that you posted in there, that's how I was able to get the link without having to look for the thread...

 

Have a nice life.

 

"I ain't promising you nothing extra"

Perhaps my favorite movie scene of all time...

 

Didn't want to start a new thread, but topic wise, I wanted to add that "For A Few Dollars More" is, apparently, going to have a 4K restoration: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07LD4P...colid=K9QEZYLNPR5J&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

 

I heard that all three films are getting a 4K restoration from Kino-Lorber.
I think A Fistful of Dollars is out, For a Few Dollars is coming out any day now on blu-ray.

 

I just watched on netflix a documentary about people who rebuilt and dug up the stones and recreated the cemetery called sad hill unearthed. Interviews with leone, morricone and eastwood.
Desenterrando Sad Hill (2017) - IMDb

 

Though not eastwood, the screeching windmill and the beginning of once upon s time in the west with strode, elam and the other guy who tell bronson, frank sent us. Now there’s 15 minutes similar leone. Strode drinking water that dripped on the brim of his hat.

 

Like how he starts drinking again when he’s told about the girl getting cut.

 

Quigley down under has a bit of that.